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  1. Feb 2021
    1. Ms. Diei says she crafted her posts for an audience of Black women like herself, and hoped she might become popular enough to make money promoting products.

      After the expulsion, of course, this is the most disturbing part of the piece. Her posts are not about being sex positive or expressing her sexuality or herself. They're about being a cog in a marketing machine, being a middlewoman, making money from persuading "our community" they need to buy something to be as sexually attractive, as popular, as self-confident, as she is. There is nothing laudatory about it, no matter her race or gender.